Alstom In Israel Pumped Storage

France’s Alstom will build and operate Israel’s first pumped storage power plant, under two agreements worth a combined €120mn with local firm PSP Investment. The 300MW Gilboa plant will be based around two pump-turbines and will be built 60km east of Haifa for start-up in 2018. Besides building the plant, Alstom will operate and maintain it for 18 years.

Alstom said on 10 January that the plant will help to improve supply reliability by using energy from other...